The Sun. — London, England, 1838-09-03 00:00:00

'lle. -I us .a c The Sun N ew Proprietor of spaper has f o rward e d t o coot`s f. c py of a tr u l y extraor di nary edition of that Journal, aing two admirable medallion portraits of the Duke ellington and Marshal Soult, on a large scale—supe rior, we think, to that of the Queen in the " Golden Sun," whit hwe perceive shines with redoubled splendour. Po %Lc ally opposed as we are to The Sun, it may be supposed t our praise is impartial ; and when we state that the Par traits would grace a handsome frame, we conceive we no, say no more in their favour. —Gloucestershire Chron. at Only a f ew weeks have elapsed since we directed public tention to an exquisite piece of workmanship connected 7 w th the Pr i nt i ng department, by the spirited Proprietor of 111 e Sun, Mr. Murdo Young, when he p u bli s h e d a s t r iki ng id b eaut i ful medallion likness of her Majesty Queen V ictoria, in his Journal, which was partly printed in gold ; at id we have now the pleasure of stating, that since that :riod a Donble sheet of The Sun has been published, con ta i fling ver i correct medallion likenesses of those two cele br ated heroes of the present age—the Duke of Wellington 'and Marshal Soult, accompanied with copious and interest lna rn'imoirs of their eventful lives. By this spirited enter prise , every individual may furnish himself, at the humble pric a of one shilling, with the well-finished portraits of those rep owned warriors, who for many years kept the world 11 W ake. Th e lik enesses may b e cut out f rom t h e paper, for a purpose of being framed ; and certainly they would not de mean the parlour of any gentleman by being exhibited as or naments.—Comet (Guernsey). James F. Smith, Esq., of this city, has received the Lon de n Sun printed in gold, as brilliant and rich as the Coro na tion itself. We have delayed our paper to give this ac co unt, for which, we cannot suppose that any apology is rig cessary.—The Toronto (Upper Canada) Patriot. The London Sun, printed in gold, has been received at Vac New York Sun office, containing an account of the Coronation with a portrait of Queen Victoria of England, s'i, John": (New Brunswick) Courier. A_GTLICULTURE-THE HIGHLANDS Throughout the northern islands, of the Hebrides in porti co] ar, the lands, from continued sub-division and sub-letting, are cast into lots so exceedingly small, that the occupiers can ker 1 ., no horses to plough or harrow the_ground, or to execute ' ) se multifari ous processes of labour, which are exclusively Is th,otted to horses in oth er quarters o f t h e kingdom. hat P us in other W parts of the count r y pe r f orm ed by h or s e s, th e ,;001' hard -toiled Hebridean must perform for himself. In nett of the plough, he must late and early ply his " cas-chrom," 'or crooked spade. This primitive kind of utensil resembles theh stilt of a ploueh, with a straight piece of wood attached the lower end of it, forming an obtuse angle, and having . a !ocket of ireu an the part that enters the ground. The stilt ! 3 held with r'ot'e hands, and the lower part or " sole" is driven rune the in Which Fund by means of a peg, on which the right foot and ro.'esses. The instrument is exactly a crooked lever, , the power is to the weight nearly as Ito 33-. most:'o,, Thou the " cas-chroin" is much more expeditious in till -I°;VA the common spade, yet it becomes a tedious and Th taborious task to till several acres of ground with it. °fee c onsequen ce i s, t h at the poor people must begin the work same dti vation even as earls Christmas, and keep toiling at th under the boisterous s and rainy climate of their country,e the middle or end of May, ere their labours are finished. _Ye 'being thus exposed to the inclemency of the weather, they t ' i r l seldom either dryly clad or shod. From this arises among ti:,l%tihe prevalence of inflammatory complaints, diseased ac- S tic dice e lymphatic system, as also acute rheumatism, pleu ases, typhus fevers, &c. o _ 3 * l esides th at the "cas-chrom" mode of tilli ng i s b o th toil ;no, arid tedious, it very muc h i n j ures t h e ground, as i t does . th. ! turn it up in that regular manner which is accomplished by ~nstr t And this i s not a ll ; w h en cu l t i vating with this za ,: ment, is found necessary to convert the field into long, to 7: ri dges, and rounded on the top by heaping up the earth cr o ZAT off the water. The said ridges are also made as G i'eel7l irregular, and distorted, as the characters in the th alphabet : and while the latter has no more, perhaps, Imo " 'nut' acres in all, much of even that is lost by the broad use, spaces which are left between the ridges. ,white is the ground is turned over, the sowing commences, u Is generally performed in a slow and awkward man er• "'seed' h. L e sower goes backwards, and having a fistful of his hand with the same three or four times, in lle t. rtic - a l unkes Position, before he disposes of it and is ready for the -fhe most o liarrowing then takes place, which the women fbr -st rum w st Pall execute, by dragging after them the fatiguing in- Inoor -eont. Owing to the lightness of the harrow which the tr oo „; u roen are thus capable of dragging after them, the 0 / 47, 4 cannot be made sufficiently smooth ; and to remedy ``.rac.:3Y comnaence anew with another instrument, called the rac are , . which gi ves a smoo th fi n ish to the whol e . Th e W , th L is mer e l y a bl oc k o f woo d , h av i ng a f ew teet h in .it !nu n : I "andle a b out three feet in length. The poor people sous e , 50 convey sea-ware from the shores, manure from their ,With the field, and peats from the hills to their dwellings, With 1.,. 4 3 :,creel on their backs, which is fastened there by a 114tiv s ing over theiribreasts. In harvest they have no alter best e but to carry home the produce of their possessions the be n ti taY th ey can, the potatoes by the creels, and th e corn i n 3 e 11Pi:M their b ac k s. — Q uarterly Journal ef Agriculture. N ls tr . D p4tR I SON OF FOREIGN GRAI N. Lorr, R, WITH THE ENGLISH MARKET. F aris is wheaten of white heaten bre a d o f t h e fi rst quality at 6 74 c. th e loaf of 2 kilogrammes, which is less than 6 d. the loaf-of 4112. English weight, and the price of bread of the first quality in London being 10, d. the loaf of 41b., the difference is 75 per cent. that bread is dearer in London than at Paris. The highest quotation of white wheat of the first quality is 33f. the li hectolitre, which equals 50s. sd. the quarter. The highest quotation of flour of the first quality is 60f. the 15.9, kilogrammes, which answers to 375. Bd. the sack of 2801 b. I,tlnglish weight, and the highest quotation of flour of the first quality in London being 655. the sack it follows that fl our i s 72/ per cent. dearer in London than at , Paris, and 421 that with the sum of 3/. ss. a man may buy 4831 b. of fine flour 'Paris, whereas with the same sum he can buy only 2801 b. 44 Lond on. The following is the state of things in other parts of France: 2 3f At Abb ev ill e the quotation of wheat of the first quality is 50c lily ,if •, of the second quality 22f. 50c., and of the third qua - -no, Voich gives a mean price of 22f. 33c., and which kis b i h w er . s to 51s. 2d. the quarter. At Dijon the quotation of th e e t 1 5 from 19f. to 201., which is from 435. 6d. to 455. 10d. lof (111 ,: r ter. At Blois the registered mean price of wheat is quotv, which equals 455. sd. the quarter. At Rouen the . 6.- : e., f ro , - "aen of new wheat is from 22f. to 231. 50c., which is old . 'Zs. sd. to 545. 10d. the quarter, and the quotation of U se ~.,. eat is from 21f. to 2 9 f., which is from 48s. ld. to 50s. sd. 1 . 7 f stoirt er. At Marans the highest quotation of wheat is • whi c h tegiStered e . quals 38s. I Id. the quarter.. At . Bergues the the second Price of wheat of the first quality is 231.. 9 . lc., of "whleh give quality, 23f, 30c., and of the third quality 22f. Bc., 428. IP.i' ve s a mean price of 23f. 10c., and which answers to . f t re ;',,, L ,• the quarter. At Grey the quotation of wheat is th ° e - i• 60c. to 18f. 40c., which is from 40.. 3d. to 425. 2d. whiql-,tter. At Dieppe wheat rules from 221. to 23f. 00c., b u , r el t h 's ' . rorn 50s. sd. to 535. 10d. the quarter. At Bras of r t i' l `"e quotation of wheat of the first quality is 21f. 35c., qi ii h e second quality 19f. 37c., and of the third quality 161.. t 4 38%,gives a mean price of 181. 91c., and which answers . o f wh eat °Q. the quarter. At Soissons the highest quotation o th e eat °f the first quality is 21f. 13c., which equals 48s. sd. bt !loaner. The highest quotation, of flour of the first qua the as 5 , 6 f• the 159 kilogrammes, which answers to 345. 7d. of fi ae 't of 2801 b. English weight, and the highest quotation . follow Our of the first quality in London being 655. the sack, it s that flour is 88 per cent. dearer in London than at Sei m° 52 61 0, and that with the sum of 3/. 55.. a man may buy b e of fine flour at Soissons, whereas with the same sum ° 4 ll buy only 2801 b. in London. NFINEMENT OF A LLEGED MADMEN. (From the Brighton Herald.) " There can be no doubt that hundreds of persons have be en doomed to pass th e i r li ves i n mad-houses, which they entered la the full possession of their faculties, and that their liberty-- even existence—has been sacrificed to motives o of cupidity or tesenge. This is a dreadful thing, and w uld se , em to be an ir n ), Probable one in a country like England —yet tNe believe it to of more frequent occurrence here than perhaps in any °ther country in the world. The Government in this, as in . 1 .," 1 : ° man other instances, has allowed a public duty to fall into 441 vato hands, Y who treat as a speculation —as a matter of pe -I,l'aiary loss and gain —the most dreadful calamity that can . s ons a human being. We might as well have private pr!- c l„ rl s, as private mad-houses ; both arc receptacles for indivi ;t , • . ais who have lost their right to a place in society, but whom should be the constant care of that society to cure and again itNu,eeeive back into its bosom. That many thousand unfortunate res have been lost to themselves and to the world by a 1 , 4 , (5 e system of treatment, adopted designedly or through igno- C qe e , is a slur on our humanity ; that thousands of others tt ' i t :e Passed a life of agony in a horrid state of confinement in p ri dungeons of a mad-house is a crying outrage on every ",, o l leiple of justice, human or divine. Mad-houses do want a A' ward as much as prisons did." .. 14:),ur Contemporary then, gives the recent case of Mr. Pater- Z ~r's seizure by some servants of a mad-house -keeper, con cling his observations with the following pertinent com lac ants :----" Thus it seems the law is null and void before a vPri6cate signed by two doctors I A person has but to be ,:twl?iently assaulted, his feelings excited by brutal treatment, a ,n in step two doctors, feel his pulse, and declare that he is 8, 0 , 4 ! Yes, to be sure, and so is every man in a degree in st'T when in a passion. Do the doctors remember the old pio)';4g, Ira est furor brevis? Men are mad in battle —mad in toneent disputes — and never more likely to becom e mad than cp„i Charged falsely with being so. But there is a wonderful b.ert-sserenee between confirmed insanity, or fits of raging mad iro , and those temporary ebullitions of temper when we may tr,ed become violently excited, but never lose a certain con -01 over our words and actions. fut ure We sho u ld hope this affair would be investigated, and in quir„sorne furth er authority than two doctors' certificates re host to depriv e a man of his liberty and place him in the depr tidr e adful of all situationye °la xly people of their s —the . mere idea of w hi ch would senses" Tr/ firs t - -,--s.r OHL A.Y;Tro: A N''C A. 1,1 A X ACC. -rend tile Mersapd third fingers of the left hand—and, commencing with .._ n at the thumb, count on—the bent fingers will indicate utontha which contain only thirty days.—Scotsman. T I`FIE "SOULT AND WELLINGTON WIND SUN." DAY) This morning the Queen attended Divine Service at St. George's Chapel. The service was King's in F. The Hen. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Proby, officiated at the altar, and the latter gentleman preached the sermon from the sixth verse of the 2d chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews. The former part of the service was read by the Rev. J. Gore. The anthem, " The Lord des cended" ( Hayes). Mr. Elvey presided at the organ. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Marchioness of Norrnanby, Lady Mary Stopford, Baroness Lehzen, Lady Gardiner, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Torrington, and others of the Royal suite were present. The Queen did not ride out yesterday. To-day her Ma jesty, attended by the Lauies and Gentlemen of the Royal suite, walked on the Terrace and through the Slopes to Ade laide Lodge. . _ _ The following were included in the Royal dinner party of this evening :—.Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Marchioness of Normanby, Lady Mary Stopford, Lady Gardi ner, the Hon. the Misses Murray and Pitt, Baroness Lehzen, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Torrington, the Hon. Major Keppel, the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by Lady Mary Stopford, drove to Cumberland Lodge this after noon in a pony phaeton. Yesterday the Duchess of Hamilton took her departure. Sir James Clerk arrived, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty in the evening. His Majesty the King of the Belgians is expected to arrive at the Castle in the course of the present week. BRIGHTON-(SUNDAY.) Yesterday a Brighton paper announces the arrival of Lord John Russell, and adds that his Lordship has taken a house at Kemp Town for several months. We believe this statement to be incorrect, as his Lordship and family are still at Ryde ; but we understand that they are in treaty for a residence at Kemp Town for the winter. Lady Canterbury arrived by the General Steam Navigation Company's packet the Belfast, on Friday morning, and after wards proceeded to Wakehurbt Park, in Sussex, on a visit. Her Ladyship will return to Brighton on Tuesday, and the next morning embark on board the Belfast for Dieppe. Lady Clifford and family left Brighton on Friday for Lon don, preparatory to a tour in Germany for the benefit of Miss Elizabeth Clifford's health. r Mr. L. and Lady Jane Peel gave an elegant dinner to a select circle of fashionables at Kemp Town on Friday, includ ing the Duchess of Bedford, Countess Bathurst, Marquis of Abercorn, Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, Mr. Irby, Col. and Mrs. Ashworth, Mr. C. Derby, &c. The Dowager Duchess of Roxburgh and Colonel O'Reilly, Lord and Lady C. Poulett, and Lady Clare are among our latest distinguished arrivals. Lord Colville proceeded to Dieppe yesterday by the steam. packet Belfast. We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Filder the w if e o f the wretched young man who is now suffering imprisonment in Lewes gaol for an assault on his servant. COURT CIRCULAR. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Friday, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Lord Glenelg transacted business on Saturday at the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's Office in Downing. street. The Grecian Minister had an interview with Viscount Pal merston on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. Prince Esterhazy visited the Noble Viscount on Saturday. The Prussian, Russian, and French Ambassadors transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign Department. The Envoy from the Imaum of Muscat transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign Department. The Bishop of Nova Scotia transacted business on Satur day at the Colonial Department. Sir George Villiers transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign Department. The agents for the West India Islands transacted business on Saturday at the Colonial Department. Despatches, dated the 22d ult., were received on Saturday at the Foreign Department from the British Charge d'Affaires at Madrid. Despatches were forwarded on Saturday from the Foreign Office for the British Ambassadors resident at the Courts of Brussels and the Hague. Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-office for Sir Howard Douglas, Lord High Commis sioner of the lonian Islands. Despatches, dated the 17th ult., were received on Satur day at the Foreign Department from Lord Ponsonby, the British Ambassador at Constantinople. Despatches were forwarded on Saturday from the Colonial Department for the Governors of Jamaica, Barbadoes, and the Officers administering her Majesty's Government in the Windward and Leeward Islands. Despatches were forwarded on Saturday from the Foreign. office for the British Ministers resident at the Courts of Berlin and Vienna. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from Colonel Doherty, Governor of Sierra Leone. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Prince and Princess Schwarzenberg and suite, in Langham place, from a tour in Scotland; Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, in Curzon-street, from a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Bushy Park ; the Hon. Captain and Lady Mary Hood, in Hanover-square, from a visit to Lord and Lady Marcus Hill, at Roehampton ; Lord Waldegrave, from Brighton; Count Zichy, from the Isle of Wight; Lord Stanley, from a visit to Mr. and Lady Charlotte Penryn, at East Sheen, Surrey ; the Earl and Countess of Lovelace, in St. James's-square, from Ockham Park, Surrey ; the Marquis of Clanricarde, from Paris; Sir Henry Webb, in George_ street, Portman-square; Lord Torrington, from Windsor Castle; the Hon. Alfred Harbord, from Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Stone, at the Royal Hotel, from the Chateau de Rosy, near Paris; the Hon. Captain and Lady Mary Hood, from Easthampstead Park, the seat of the Marquis of Downshire, in Berks ; Lord Wm. Somerset, from Brighton ; Sir Robert Adair, in Chesterfield-street, May-fair, from Ireland; Count Charles and Countess Pozzo di Borgo, at Ashburnham House, from the Hotel of the Prussian Ambassador, at Paris. DEPARTURES. Sir Henry Willoughby, Bart., from Cork-street, for Scot land ; Lord Ongley, from Langham-place, for his seat, Old Warden, near Shefford, Bedfordshire ; Countess Dowager de Salis, from Carlton-gardens, for her seat in Ireland; Lord Tcignmouth, from York-terrace, Regent's-park, for his seat in Ireland ; Sir Robert Gordon, Bart., from Argyle-house, for Balmoral, Aberdeenshire; Sir Archibald Christie, K. C. H., from Upper Berkeley-street, for Stirling Castle, Stirlin g ; Mr. T. D. Acland, M.P., for his seat in Devonshire ; Baron Werther, from Grosvenor-place, for Bath ; the Dowager Countess of Clare and Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon, from Bel grave-square, for Brighton ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, from St. James's-square, for Leamington Spa ; Lord Crofton, for his scat, Moat-park, near Roscommon, Ire land ; the Earl and Countess of Falmouth, and Lord Bos cawen, from St. James's-square, for their seat, Tregothnan, Truro, Cornwall ; Lord and Lady Marcus Hill, from Ar lington-street, for Worthing ; her Grace the Duchess of Athol, and Miss Knight, from the Brunswick-house Hotel, Hanover-square, for Southampton ; the Countess Leontiff and suite, from ditto, for Brighton ; William Seroope, Esq., from ditto, from Chorley-wood, Hertfordshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Aspinwall, from ditto, for Manchester ; Frederick Anger stein, Esq., from ditto, for Wales. CHANGES. Count D'Orsay and the Countess of Blessington, at Lea mington Spa, from Cheltenham ; Sir Gregory and Lady Way, at Brighton, from Worthing; Lord Leveson, at the Duke and Duchess of Richmond's, Gordon Castle, Scotland, from Haworth Castle, Cumberland; Lord Forrester, at Drayton Manor, on a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Peel, from Long shawe Lodge, the seat of the Duke of Rutland ; the Countess Mountnorns, at Brighton, from Tunbridge Wells ; the Earl and Countess of Belmore, at their seat, Castlecoote, Lisnaken, from Dublin ; the Earl o f Cl are , on a tour i n S cot l an d , f rom Wales ; th e Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M. P., and Captain Ellice, M.P., at their shooting quarters, Invershie, Scotland, from Ryde, Isle of Wight ; the Duchess of Bedford, at Brighton, from a short visit at Worthing; the Duke of Leeds, at Mar Lodge, his shooting quarters in Scotland ,from York shire; Baron de Gotch, at Aberdeen, from Cheltenham ; the Earl of Rathdowne and the Ladies Monek, at their seat Charleville Bray, from a visit at Duncan ; Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart., M. P., and Lady Glynne, at Leamington Spa, War wickshire, from their seat in Flintshire ; Baron de Bergh and Baron de Krassow, on a tour in Scotland, from the Lakes in Cumberland ; the Earl Howe, Lord Curzon, Lady Georgiana and Hon. R. Curzon, at Gopsall Hall, their seat in Leicester shire, from town ; Sir John Guise, at Torquay, Devon, from Cheltenham ; Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby and the Hon. Misses Willoughby, at Drummond Castle, Perthshire, from Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire ; the Duke of Devonshire, at Aix-la- Chapelle, from Paris ; Lord Duncan, M. P., at Ches• sell, near Southampton, on a visit to Lord and Lady Ash town, from Leamington Spa, Warwickshire ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and Lord Seaham, at Castle Wynyard, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Tweddale and Lords and Ladies Hay, at their seat in Scotland, from a visit to Colonel and Lady Elizabeth Steele, at Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire ; the Duke of St. Alban's, at his seat, Redbourn Hall, near Brig, Lincoln shire, from Cheltenham. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex visited the Dock Yard this afternoon, and went on board the Hastings, 74 ; his Highness requested to be received in a private manner, and though the standard was hoisted at the dock-gates, no salutes were fired.—Hampshire Telegraph of Saturday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and family, it is reported, will shc,rtly pay a visit to Tonbridge Wells. Viscount Duncannon is staying at his residence, East-hill. Prince George of Cambridge came to Cambridl House on Saturday morning. His Royal Highness returned to Kew in the afternoon. The King of Prussia would, it is stated in private letters from Berlin, stand sponsor, by proxy, to the infant heir of the noble and distinguished houses of Below and Hum holdt. Baroness Billow, the Laat of the Pi osian MiniFter to the British Court, and her infant were, at the latest dates, doing well. • The Duchess -Countess of Sutherland is receiving Lord and Lady Mahon remain in Grosveno r - p l ace, the period o f h er L a d ys hi p ' s confinement being daily expected ' Lord and L a d y Fi tzroy S omerset i ntend leaving town this morning, on a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at Walmer Castle, and thence proceed to Dover for six weeks. The mortal remains of Lady Isabella Tumour were interred on Friday last in the family vault of Sir Charles Chad, Bart., at Th urs f or d, N orfolk, hav i ng been removed from Browsea Castle, Dorset, a few days previous. It is asserted that there will be gland doings in the ensuing month at Wentworth House, the scat of Earl Fitz wil liam, on the occasion of Viscount Milton's birthday being kept. His Lordship will complete his 23d year on the 12th of next month, and the rejoicings usual on the heir attaining his majo rity have been deferred in consequence of the premature and lamented demise, in 1835, of the late Viscount. The late Earl Fitzwilliam possessed the Earldom 77 years. Sir Charles and Lady Conroy, and Mr. and Lady Alicia Conroy, are returned to Kensington, from a visit to North Wales. Charles Bathurst, Esq., of Sydney Park, has made the munificent donation of 1,000/. to the Church-building As sociation, the interest to be applied to the endowment of the new church at Cinderford, in the Forest of Dean.—Hereford Times. Lord Lowther has left town on a Continental tour. Madame Albertazzi, Madame Persiani, Rubini, and Mon, the violinist, have been giving concerts at South ampton, whence they have set out for Cheltenham, Bath, &c. The irofits of the lessee of her Majesty's Theatre by the late brilliant season have, we understand, been consi - derably exaggerated. We believe, however, that the mana ger's gains exceed 10,0001. A new comedy, by Buckstone, in three acts, to be entitled A Lesson for Ladies, was rehearsed on Saturday, at the Haymarket. The principal characters by Messrs. Buckstone and Walter Lacy, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, and Miss Taylor. Tamburini and Laporte have left town for Italy. The Demoiselles Eisler made their first appearance on Thursday last, since their return from London, at the Odeon, for the benefit of the artistes of the late Vaudeville Theatre. Duprez, the celebrated singer, and Mdlle. Plessy also contributed their talents on the occasion. DOVER, SEPT. 2.—His Majesty the King of the Belgians will embark at Ostend on Tuesday, for Ramsgate, on a visit to her Majesty. Her Majesty's Steam Packet, Ariel, Capt. Hamilton, is ordered to Ostend for the conveyance of the King to England. The Hastings, 74, Captain Francis Loch, is or dered to be ready for sea by the 29th inst , when her Majesty the Queen Dowager Adelaide and suite will embark in her at Portsmouth about that time for Malta. Lieut. Schoenberg, a son of the late Gallant Admiral Schomberg, has been ap pointed to the Hastings, and Captain Curzon, who distin guished himself at Navarino, for which he received the order of the French Legion of Honour and Redeemer of Greece, will attend her Majesty to the Mediterranean as Private Se cretary. Marlborough House and Bushy Park will be left in sharge of Lord Howe, her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain. Earl Bathurst, who has arrived at Oakley Park, his seat near Cirencester, is erecting extensive stabling there for the accommodation of the noblemen and gentlemen hunting with Lord Moreton's hounds. DEATH OF ANDREW CLEPHANE, ESQ.—We regret to announce the sudden demise of this excellent indivi dual. He had been complaining for some time, but considered himself better, and was walking in his garden at Kirkness, on Friday, when he dropped down and almost instantly expired. Mr. Clephane has filled the office of Sheriff of Fife for a num ber of years, and was much respected. The public owe him a debt of gratitude for his exertions to improve the ferry commu nication between Fife and Mid- Lothian.—Edinburgh Courant. Steam navigation has been brought to such perfec tion that a person may go at mid-day from London-bridge to Westminster by Starlight, and he may now return at midnight by Daylight, or he may have his choice of doing it by Moon light or Twilight, there being four steam-boat omnibuses called by these delightful names. Des. BOWRING.—Last Wednesday the friends and admirers of Dr. Bowring, to the number of nearly one hundred, availing themselves of the circumstance of his passing through Edinburgh, entertained him at a public banquet in the Water loo Hotel there--the Hon. James Erskine Murray, of Aber. dons, in the chair, supported on the right by Dr. Bowring, W. Tait, Esq., bookseller, Mr. Alderman Whyte, of London, &c. ; and on the left by Mustapha Edhem Bey, General of Engineers in the army of the Viceroy of Egypt (a person who, from his high station and peculiar personal appearance, excited a good deal of interest in the meeting), the Hon. Dundas Murray, Larking, Esq., Thomas Ireland, Esq., &c. The croupiers were J. H. Burton and Alexander Macauley, Esqrs. Several ladies were also present. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.—The managers of this popular theatre have done themselves great credit by an nouncincr a very attractive selection of p er f ormances for the benefit of Mr. Barnes, the celebrated pantaloon, to take place on Wednesday next. Poor Barnes will upon that occasion make his last appearance in public. As the benefit is intended for the relief of his severe distress, we have little doubt but it will be found to answer its object. It is not under such cir cumstances that the people of this metropolis are likely to for get the claims of an old servant, who at the close of a laborious life, devoted to their amusement, is reduced by misfortune to solicit for the last time their patronage and protection. All the members of the profession have shown the utmost readi ness and anxiety to contribute to his benefit by their talents in various departments. The bills will show that, considered as a mere performance, the announcement is well calculated to attract ; and when to this we add the cause which has put so strong a dramatic force into action—the distress of an old re tiring favourite, we shall have communicated an a iditional im pulse in the feeling of benevolence which, far from impairing, will exhilirate the enjoyment of the scene. THE NEW NOVELS, &c.—The following new novels and romances are just published by Mr. Bentley, New Burlington -street, and may now be had of all Booksellers and at the various libraries A Romance of Vienna, by Mrs. Trollope, author of" The Vicar of Wrexhill," " Vienna and the Austrians," Scc., 3 vols. IL The Last Days of Aurelian; or, The Nazarenes of Rome, by the author of " Zenobia, Queen of the East," 2 vols., Twelve Shillings. 111. The Wife Hunter, by Dennis Ignatius Moriarty, Esq., 3 vols. IV. Homeward Bound; or The Chase, by J. Fenimore Cooper, Esq., author of " The Pilot," " Red Rover," &c., 3 vols. V. Sam Slick's Sayings and Doings. Second Series. 1 vol., 10s. 6d. VI. Traditions of Chelsea College, including Anecdotes and Adventures of Military Life, by the Author of " The Subaltern" (Mr. Gleig), 3 vols. VII. Adventures of Captain Blake ; or, My Life, by the Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &c., complete in one vol. for Six Shillings, embellished with engravings; forming the new volume of " The Standard Novels and Ro mances ;" and on the 10th inst. will be published, Land Sharks and Sea Gulls. By Capt. Glascock, R.N., Author of " The Naval Sketch Book," " Tales of a Tar," 3 vols., with illustrations by Gecrge Cruikshank. ABSTRACTION OF MILITARY STORES FROM LEITH FORT.—This is a somewhat remarkable case, and not unlike ore, connected with naval stores, which occurred at Leith a number of years ago. The chief inspector of the . stores at Leith Fort is Mr. Gibbs, who resides at the fort, and is a member of the Leith Town-council. Under him was a man named Shanks, who had the immediate care of the stores. Shanks had two daughters of indifferent reputation. Some months ago, oh an ordnance vessel arriving at Leith to take stores to England, it was discovered that about 30,000 carbine balls (up war d s o f a ton) had been taken out of their cases , and the empty cases artfully concealed beneath the full ones. Farther discoveries ensued, and from another store between 100 and 200 pairs of militia trousers, which had come from Stirling Castle, were missed, and a number of saddles. Sus picion attached to Shanks ; he was apprehended, examined, and, after being in confinement, released on the authorities not being able to establish his guilt. Suspicion also attached to tShheasntkotse'ss beingda ught a e m rs is b sin ut gl hey, on h ear i ng o f t h e di sco very of chiefly e tspo c ht l foo o r stor s ehe u u es r go, efh,it daughters p y sp ee l ri rlti believed, rhoo. period G b pt cor i oas b kss b oee s dhlvr , kingsaeesttv.braeeaeel been oseyendehegaanai years, belonging ay eluded d e t ect i on . Sh an k s , it ap f pears, was di scovered, sometime prior to the ultimate dis closure, p t h a i r e o n f d t e r a o v w o s u e r r i s n , g and to d oll s! woman's esta o t of e f , t ha te u h d et r h o a ku d esye e sr a s s y b t s o tra th c e te s d tor fr e o s m . t T im h e e t m o i t s i s m in e g , i were e r t e h the o a r b n s absence e a c ess b , ss y dt the ao ogt hh d et eatusg storesh b e t e v r e s b , ya r a r n i dv merelye s d o l e d t f i a mA t iaaln G ifn r g a p n au t i o rss n e Pier, wh o h a d purchased them o labourersf r t o h m e r workingfather.broke r s Concerning the saddles, several were sold to a person who sailed for America some time ago, and on information of this being given, the day after the vessel sailed, a sheriff's officer way despatched for the puipose of boarding her, as she passed the Pentland Firth, but on the officer's arriving there the vessel was out of reach far into the ocean.—Glasgow Journal. a large party of friends at Dunrobin Castle, in Sutherland shire. The Earl and Countess of Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Francis Egerton, Hon. G. Noel, Hon. R. Noel, and Mr. J. Loch, M. P., are among the guests. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster return to Grosvenor House to-day, and on Wednesday leave for Moor Park, where they intend to pass another week, and then pay a final visit to town ere their departure for Eaton Hall, in Cheshire. We are exceedingly sorry to learn that the Mar chioness of Londonderry was seized with a violent inflamma tory sore throat and fever in proceeding from Tottenham Park to Wynyard, and was delayed three days at Manchester, where Drs. Marshall and Ainsworth attended her Ladyship. She has since been removed to the family mansion at Wynyard Park, where, we lament extremely to state, her Ladyship still re mains suffering under the most painful illness, which has caused general regret in the neighbourhood. The Earl of Devon is entertaining company at Povv derliam Castle, Devon. Lord and Lady Courtenay, who have been visiting► the family estates in the north of Ireland, will shortly join his Lordship at the Castle. The Dowager Countess of Clare, accompanied by Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon, has left town for Brighton, where her Ladyship has taken Montpellier Lodge for a few months. The Earl of Clare is in Scotland, visiting several of the nobi lity, but will visit Mount Shannon, his seat, near Limerick, next month. The Earl of Mansfield has been on a visit to Mrs. Goodenough, of Heath, during the week.-- Wakefield Journal. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are expected to return to Cowes this day, from their cruise off the French coast. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, SEPT. I.—The election of Rector of Exeter College, in the room of the late Dr. Jones, took place at an early hour this morning, and the choice fell on the Rev. Joseph Loscombe Richards, B. D., late a Fellow of the Col lege, which he vacated on being presented to the Rectory of Bushey, Herts, in 1835, in the gift of the same College. The Dean and Chapter of Worcester have presented the Rev. C. R. S. Cocks, of Chr;st Church, to the Vicarage of Wolverley, Worcestershire. The Rev. C. H. Collyns, D. D., has been instituted to the Rectory of Farringdon, Devonshire. Patron, the Bishop of Exeter. The Rev. Henry Huntingford, Fellow of Winchester, late Fellow of New College, was on Wednesday last admitted by the Dean and Chapter of Hereford to the office of Canoii Residentiary of that Cathedral. The Trustees of Blundell's School, Tiverton, have awarded a Scholarship of Baliol College, as a prize, to Mr. Frederick Temple, son of the late Octavius Temple, Esq., late Governor of Sierra Leone. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CONDUCT OF THE WORKING CLASSES. In the first place, admitting all that can be said in favour of Universal Suffrage, as the best basis of government, to be true, years must e l a p se b e f ore i t can b e b roug h t a b out , an d in the meantime we must have some kind of Government and Legislation, good, b a d, or i n diff erent , t o k ee p society a - go ing. When a man is sick he takes medicine to cure him, but he at the same time takes some nourishment to keep soul and body together. So, in the body corporate of the State, it is abso lutely necessary that those whose high views are fixed on a perfect model of Government should, in the meanwhile, do what they can to get as much good out o f our existing,im perfect in s tit ut i ons as may keep us from grow i ng worse. \%e have read of a f a th er w h o d evote d hi s exclusive attention to the invention of a perfect system of education for his children so long that he allowed them to grow up rogues and --. Is there no danger, while our politicians refuse to make use of our make-shift institutions, because they could devise more perfect ones, that they w h o h ave t h e power way go on mis governing us into beggary and demoralisation ? Are the men of Aberdeen resolved, like petted children, to starve themselves if they do not get all they want a 4 the first asking ? In the s econ d p l ace, pu b lic opinon can do much to check misgovernm en t, and force on good Legislation, even with our present imperfect institutions. Public opinion would work more freely and safely had every man a vote ; but public opi nion is powerful even at present. Much praise is claimed for Ministers on the score of their experiment in the way of na tional education in Ireland, and their throwing open the In dian trade. They had the sense to do these things, and let them have credit for it; but the Irish educational scheme they found cut and dry in the desks of their predecessors ; and the trade to India must have been thrown open even had the boroughmongers remained in power. Even without the par tial reform we have obtained, such power had public opinion. In the total emancipation of the negro, we have another ex ample of what united public opinion can force from a reluctant Government and time-serving Legislature. There are many points of special legislation upon which pub lic opinoin may at this moment be concentrated and ex presed with effect ; and among these, one of the most promi nent is that on which Mr. Duncan calls the public to be silent —the Corn-laws. These laws are an evil, too, so urgent—so destructive—that, if we are to wait for their repeal until Uni versal Suffrage is brought about, the country may be ruined in the interim. In the third place, the agitation of special grievances instead of weakening, will strengthen the feeling in favour of an exten sion of the suffrage. Every additional proof of misgovernment —every additional proof of the difficulty of obtaining redress— will bring fresh recruits to the cause of a radical change in our institutions. It would almost seem from Mr. Duncan's anxiety, that he feared, were the Corn-laws repealed, he would lose his only handle against existing institutions. Were the Corn-laws repealed to-morrow, we could bring forward a round dozen of grievances, at a moment's warning, almost as de r m int. We do net think quite so favourably of the working of the present system as Mr. Duncan seems to do. While on this head we may remark, that keen politicians are ap to err, from assuming that every body knows as much, and feels as keenly and continuously, as themselves, They forget the necessity of keeping constantly in the public view, the full extent of practical grievances and their necessary connection with bad forms of Government. It is not enough that a people's rights and their denial be held out to them. To stir the really efficient body of the people to action, the conse quence of withholding these rights must again and again be branded on their souls. This can only be done by agitating specific grievances. We do no t as k th e men assembled at at Aberdeen to form Anti-Corn-law Associations, but we ask them to bawl out lustily against the Corn-laws. They can do this without interrupting their exertions for the other objects they have in view ; and, by doing this, they will strengthen instead of weakening their cause.— Glasgow Argus. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1838 LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Don John—taken 7 to 2 agst Colonel Peel's lon—offered 8 to 1 agst Mr. Parkins's Lanercost 9 to 1 agst Mr. Coombes's Cobham—offered 16 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Appleton Lad The Cup-3 to 1 agst Harkaway. WEYMOUTH RACES.-TKUBSDAT. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. The best of heats. Two - .. - . . miles. Mr. F. Craven's I-wish-you-may-get-it, 3 yrs, Bst. 21b 1 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Chapeau d'Espagne, 4 yrs, Bst. 61b 4 2 Mr. Galpine's b. f. Active, 5 yrs, lOst Lord Jersey's b. f. Jemima, by Priam, 3 yrs, Bst. 21b Won by half a neck, after a very fine race. The Lodmoor Stakes of 10 soya. each, 3 ft., and 30 added from the best of heats. One mile and a half. 4 Subs. Mr. J. Finch's b. g. Logic, aged, 9st. 131 b Benskin 1 1 Mr. Biggs's b. f. Clara, 3 yrs, sit. 31b Mr. Senior's Black-and-all -Black, aged, Bst. 121 b 3 dr Handicap Stakes, with 20 sovs. added by the Ladies for the beaten horses, &c. Mile heats. Mr. J. Finch's Mayflower, aged, Bst. 91b.. Mr. Biggs's ch. f. Clara, 3 yrs, 6st. 91b Mr. Senior's Black-and-all-Black (h. b.), aged, 7st 121 b 3 3 dr Mr. Squibb% Susanne, aged, 6st. 21b The second a dead heat ; the third won by a length. A gcod race. NORTHAMPTON RACES.--THURSDA r. The Port Stakes of 5 sous. each, with a Purse added by the Inn keepers, for horses not thorough-bred. The winner to be sold for 80 sous., &c. Heats, once round and a distance. 8 Subs. Mr. Bliss's ch. g. Leicester, aged, list. 111 b Mr. Bla son ' s b . m. Polly Hopkins, 4 yrs, 9st. 131 b Mr. Merry's b. m. Matilda, 5 yrs, 10st. illb ... 5 4 3 Mr. Stevenson's br. h. Reform, aged, I2st 1 2 dr Sir. C. Flesher's ch. f. Polly, 3 yrs, Bst. 131 b Mr. Halliday's Tickle-me-Gently, 5 yrs, lOst. Illb 6dr - . - A The North ampton Cup Stakesgood race. of 10 sovs. each. Twice round, __ _ ----- _ n 16 Subscribers. Mr. V. King's ch. h. Rateatcher, aged, 9st. 81b Sly 1 Lord Exeter's br. c. Dardanelles, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b . Won very easy. Dardanelles broke down. The Tow n Members' Plate of 50 soya. Heats, two miles. The Sly 1 1 311rr .. Steven'sl V. bf.. winner , ep t ar o ri se b er e ,, 4 s 4o yes,l y el r f s o , 8r Bststl O 0/. , &c. 3 2 Mr. J. Mason's br. g. Colverstown, 5 yrs, Bst. 91b HEREFORD RA CE S.—TirtrizspAr. The City and County Gold Cup of 50 sovs. (in specie), added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya. each, 10 ft., and 5 only if declared, &c. Two miles and a half. 9 Subscribers, of whom two declared. Mr. Griffiths's ch. c. Lugwardine, 4 yrs, ist. 121 b. (41bs. ex.) 1 Mr. T. Walters's br. h. King Cole, 5 yrs ... 2 Mr. Bristow's br. h. Dr. Slop, 5 yrs, Bst. 121 b 3 Mr. Morris's b. g. by Hesperus, 4 yrs, 6st. 101 b • Mr. Har r i s ' s b . g. Barclay, 4 yrs, ist. 101 b 5 Mr. Treh earne ' s ch. h. Squirrel, 5 yrs, 7st. 61b The Pony Race was won in three heats by Mr. Turner's Van dyke, 10st., beating Mr. Tranter's Jim Crow, Bst. 101 b; Mr. Quinlin's Frolic, 6st. 71b; and Mr. Whitcomb's True Blue, 6st. 71b. Handicap Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added. Heats, about a mile and a half. 4 Subs. Mr. Thompson's b. m. by Tramp, aged, 7st. 10Ib 1 Mr. Trehearne's ch. h. Squirrel, 5 yrs, Ist. 21b Mr. Farmer's ch. m. Latona, aged, 9st. 61b Mr. Porter's b. m. Rosabella, aged, Ist. 81b Hurdle Race Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added from the Fund. Heats, once round and a distance, with four leaps in each heat. 5 Subs. Mr. Vever's b. g. Charity, aged, 12st. 21b r 2 1 1 Mr. Walker's ch. c. Picnic, 4 yrs, 10st. 101 b 1 2 2 Mr. Tranter's b. g. Cholstrey, 6 yrs, lOst. 71b 3 3 dr Mr. Brooke's b. g. Sinbad, aged, 1 lit. 61b STOCKTON RACES.—THUBSDAr. Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, h. ft. for two years old ; colts, Bst. 61b; and fillies, Bst. 31b; those by untried stallions, or mares that never bred a winner before 1837 allowed 31b. T.Y.C. 9 Subs. Mr. Blacklock's b. c. Commodore (31bs) Nicholson 1 Lord Winton's b. c. by Liverpool (31bs) Mr. Fox's ch. c. Item, by Waverley, out of Catgut 3 Won easy. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, p.p., ‘N t h 20 added for the second; three years old colts, Bst. 41b ; and fillies, B.t ; winners once in 1838 31bs ; tv ice, 51bs. extra. From the Red Post, nearly two miles. 8 Subs. Mr. Vansittart's ch. c. by Humphrey Clinker Wetherall I Duke of Cleveland's b. c. Hart 2 Mr. Attwood's b. c. Are. A good race. Handicap Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., and only 5 if declared, &c., with 20 added for the second. One mile and a half. 10 Subs., one of whom pay 5 sows. Lye I 2 Mr. Kin 3 Lord Clifton's n ni o f c o s s s y St. r fisher, co , 43 y Bennett, ry: i v 6s r ;s s i 8 7 41 s hm t . 71b Mr. Whitelock's Maid of Avenel, 4 yrs, 6st. 121 b Won easy. MAN CHES7'.ER RACES.—ThURSDA Y. The Victoria Sweepstakes of 15 sous. each, 10 ft., with 100 soy added by the Brewers of Manchester and the neighbourhood. Heats, one mile and a quarter. 14 Subs., of whom 5 declared, &c. Lord Eglinton's b. g. The Potentate, by Langar, 6 yrs, 9st. 41b (W. Thompson) ......................................................... 1 Mr. Heseltine's Slashing Harry, by Voltaire, 4 yrs, Bst. 121 b... 2 Sir T. Stanley's b. c. dasparoni, by St. Nicholas, 3 yrs, 75t... 3 The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. A. Phil lips's ch. f. The Maid of Monton, 4 yrs, 7st. 101 b; Mr. Palmer's b. f. Creusa, 4 yrs, 7st. 31b; Mr. Allen's b. m. Vesper, 5 yrs, 7st. 31b ; Lord Miltown's ch. h. Cushneich e , 5 yrs, i st. 21b ;and Mr. Worthington's b. c. Northendon, 3 yrs, 7st. Betting,-5 to 4on Slashing Harry, 3to 1 agst Potentate, sto 1 agst The Maid, 6 to 1 agst Northendon, and 10 to 1 agst Cush neiohe. Won by nearly half a head, after a fine race. The Selling Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 30 added; for three yrs old, 7st ; four yrs , Bst. 21b ; five yrs, B s t. 91b ; six yriand aged, 9st. 121 b; winn ers once, 31bs ; twice, 51bs. e ztra. Mile and quarter heats. The winner to be sold for 120 sows., &c. 10 li Subs. M r . J. Langshaw's br. m. Theano, 5 yrs, 9st Livesey 1 Mr. Mostyn's ch. c. by the Grand Duke, 3 yrs, 7st. 31b......... 2 Mr. Osborne's b. g. Orcus, by Velocipede, 3 yrs, 7st. 51b 3 The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Thomp son's b. g. Lord Francis, 6 yrs ; Mr. Dawson's b. c. Brecongill, 3 yrs ; Mr. Wises ch. c. Contentment, 3 yrs ; Mr. Griffin's b. m. Risk, by Langar , 5 y rs Mr. E. Peel's b. f. Cant a t a , b y M uley, 4 yrs; and Mr. Marlow'; s ch. f. Fairplay, by Belzoni, 3 yrs. Betting-5 to 2 agst Cantata, 3to 1 agst The Grand Duke, 4to 1 agst Theano, and 10 to 1 agst Fairplay. Won in a canter. Plate of 50 sous. for horses that never won that value ; three yrs old, 7st; four , Bst. 21b; five and upwards, Bst. 101 b. Mile ad a quarter heats. Mr. Arrowsmith's ch. f. Margravine, by Margrave, out of Sister to Memnon ...... ........W. Jones 12 1 Mr. Harland's ch. c. 80-peep, by Actaeon, 3 yrs ......... 0 1 2 Mr. Astley's br. g. Clitheroe, by Filho-da-Puta, aged... 0 0 3 Mr. Barrow's b. t. Remnant, by Brutandorf, 3 yrs ...... 2 0 dr Mr. Dawson's b. C. Brecongill, by Brutandorf, 3 y r s... 0 0 dx• Sir R. Bulkeley's b. f. Piccotee, by Teniers, 3 y rs ...... 0 0 dr Mr. A. Bower's b. f . by Timonr, 3 yrs 3 dr Mr. Kaistor's b. g. D ust y Bill y , a g ed ......... 0 dr Sir T. Stanley's ch. c. by Bay Malton, 3 yrs 0 dr Mr. Leek's b. f. by Emancipation, 3 yrs ••• 0 dr Mr. Langshaw's b. f. Pandora, by Olympus, 3 yrs (h. b.) 0 dr Betting—First heat, 6 to 4 on 80-peep, and 2 to 1 on Pandora. Won rather cleverly. Second heat, No betting worth notice, but 80-peep the favourite. Won by half a head. Third heat, 2to 1 ' on IL-peep. Won cleverly. FRIDAY. The Coronation Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., with 30 added, for two years old ; colts, Bst. 61b ; fillies, Bst. 31b ; winners once, 31b ; twice. 51b. extra. T. Y. C. 5 Subs. Mr. Peel's b. c. Alzdorf, by Brutandorf, out of Ridotto...White house 1 Mr. Smith's b. c. by Margrave, out of Lady Fractious.. Mr. T. Worthingto n ' s c h. f . b y R ecovery, dam by Bustard 3 Bettin-2 gto 1 on Alzdurf (who carried Bst. 91b.), 3 to 1 agst Smith's colt, and 4to 1 agst Worthington's filly. Alzdorf took the lead, kept it, and won by two lengths. The Convivial ( Handicap) Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft., with 90 added by the Publicans and their Friends. Twice round and a distance. 6 Subs. Mr. G. Ogden's b. c. St. Leonard, 3 yrs, 6st. 131b...A. Cruse 1 Mr. Hudson's b. f. Columbine, 4 yrs, Bst. 51b 2 Mr. Mustyn's ch. c . b y Grand Duke, 3 yrs, 7st. 41b Mr. Palmers b. f. C reusa, b y Priam, 4 yrs, 7st. 61b fell 11r. Arrowsmith's b. g . O rcus, 3 yrs, 7st. 21b fell Betting --5 to 1 agst Grand Duke, 3to 1 agst Orcus, 3to 1 agst Columbine, and 3to 1 agst St. Leonard. Won in a canter by several lengths. A __ inquest was held on Friday, in St. George's Hospital, on the body of a man named Biggs, whose death was occasioned by severe scalds, received from falling into a mash tub full of boiling liquid, in a brewery in Lisson-Grove, where he bad been at work. He had needlessly got upon the top of the tub to turn a cock. Deceased was a steady man, and was perfectly sober at the time of the occurrence. Verdict—" Ac cidental death, with a deodend of is." On Friday afternoon, about two o'clock, as the Banbury and Buckinghamshire waggon was passing along Holborn, heavily laden, when near Chancery-lane, the axletree snapped in two, and caused it to turn over with a violent crash. Fortunately no injury was done to the passengers, who most narrowly escaped being crushed to death. The passage down Chancery -lan e was blocked up nearly an hour. NAzARETII.—Every scene of our Saviour's life at Nazareth is marked by chapels and churches; there is a well, however, named after the Virgin, to the east of the city, which we gazed at with extreme interest; it still supplies Nazareth with water, and thither, without a doubt, came the Virgin Mo ther and her Saviour Son, day after day, to draw water, as we saw the daughters of Nazareth coming while we stopped our horses to drink of it.—Lord Lindsay's Letters on Egypt. DEATH ACCELERATED BY MORI SON'S PILLS. (From the Nottingham Review.) On Wednesday an inquest was held at the house of Mr. George Brewster, the sign of the Shakspeare Cottage, at New Lenton, to inquire into the death of Anthony Ibbotson, formerly a well-known exciseman of that place. Mary, wife of the said George Brewster, deposed that de ceased lived next door to her, was apensioner, about 64 years of age, and during the last three weeks had lived quite alone in his house. About eleven o'clock on Monday morning last she went into his house, and saw him sitting in a chair, look ing dreadfully ill ; asked him how long he had been ill ; he replied since ten o'clock. Made him some gruel, and at tended to other matters for his comfort ; by his desire left him alone, as he said he would knock for her when he wanted her. Saw him again that night at eight o'clock, when he complained of great pain in the lower part of his bowels. On Tuesday morning, about seven o'clock, he got up and came down stairs, but he said he was very bad. Made him some broth of a rabbit, received from his daughter, which he drank ; he then appeared very bad, and smoked his pipe : he afterwards vomited as much as two quarts of green fluid, and then lay down again; that was about twelve o'clock. Asked him if his daughter should not be sent for; wrote a letter to request his niece to come, as he said she could best be spared. He gave witness's daughter half-a crown, to buy two boxes of Morison's pills with, as she re turned from the post-office, and while she was gone, witness took him a cup of tea, which he drank, and she again left him. On her daughter's return with a packet of pills, and threepence in change, she went to him again, and found him with a little stool close by his bed side, on his knees upon the stool, as if at prayer, and his head on the bed, lying on his arms; called in a neighbour, and lifted him on the bed, but he was quite dead. He had vomited a quart of greenish matter or fluid, and lay in it; this was about seven o'clock in the evening. He was a penurious man, and was under no proper medical treatment. He was in the habit of taking Morison's pills; had heard him speak very highly of them. On Monday, he told her he had taken ten pills, and that he ought to have taken twenty. He was much emaciated, and suffered great pain. He was pos sessed of a little property, and witness was one of his tenants. He told witntss that he thought his illness came on with painting his tenant's house last week. Mr. R. Davison, surgeon, said that he had examined the body of the deceased, and had found no marks of external violence; upon opening the body, he found the stomach and bowels in a highly inflamed state, with a quantity of thin yellow fluid, and upon examining the fluid, he found it to con tain a certain quantity of aloes, but principally gamboge, which are two medicines of a very violent and drastic nature, and such as, in his opinion, were highly injurious to a person of the emaciated and delicate constitution of the deceased. Witness was also of opinion that the inflamed state of the bowels and stomach was the cause of his death, 1' whether the medicines caused the inflamation he could not say, but such medicines would cause and increase inflamation, and were an improper medicine to give him. Upon examina tion of the pills they were found to contain gamboge and aloes, which were the same ingredients which he detected in the stomach. The powder contains, amongst other ingredients, cream of tartar, or tartaric acid and cinnamon, but he could not state precisely without making an analysis of the contents. The examination was made in the presence of Mr. Marriott, sur geon, and assistant. Verdict—' That the deceased died from natural causes, but that his death was accelerated by taking Morison's pills." (We are , informed that the deceased was so preposessed in favour of Morison's pills, that, during his life, he may be said to have taken pecks of them.) --- - APPOINTMENT OF SHERIFFS IN IRELAND.— The evidence of the Right Honourable John Doherty before the Lords' Committee, on the appointment of Sheriffs in Ireland, which we have transferred from the columns of the Evening Mail, is both amusing and instructive—amusing because of the round-about way which the Learned Judge took to convince the Committee that they knew far more about the matter than he did—and instructive because we have now high authority— the authority of no less distinguished a gentleman than the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas—for believing that " the morrow of All- Souls falls on the same day in Ireland as in England." Judge Doherty is quite certain of this point, but on every matter connected with the inquiry, including the ad vice which he gave the Duke of Northumberland —who, by the-bye, was one of the first to travel out of the Judge's lists —he appears--indeed he admits himself—to be profoundly ignorant. Chief Justice Doherty is certainly afflicted with a very treacherous memory.—Southern Reporter. LEITH HARBOUR COMMISSION.--On Friday, the Leith To wn -C ounc il a ppointed Robert Lidd e ll , George Thornburn, and John David Hope, Esqs., Commi ss i oners for the management of the affairs of the harbour and docks.— Scotsman. _ _ _ _ _ An inquest was held on Friday in Lambeth on the body of a yeung man, named Thomas, who fell overboard from a wherry, in which he and a friend w ere row i ng, near Vaux hall-bridge. Verdict—" Accidental death." The Jury strongly condemned the practice of young men unacquainted with row ing going upon the water in vessels so lightly built. FIRE ON BOARD TAE OCEAN STEAM-SNIP.-- A fire broke out yesterday afternoon in the engine -room of the Ocean steam-ship, just arrived from Calais, and now lying off the Custom House. Fortunately the fire was extinguished without doing much damage. Nothing certain is known as to its origin. It is not generally known that letters and news papers may be posted at Kensington for Devonshire, on Sun days—a bag being made up at that office, a convenience which the Devonshire public owe to the good offices of Earl Morley. SWORD FISH. --On Friday last, as Smalley, a Boston fisherman, was pricking for butts, near Corporation Point, he observed a sword fish knocking about, nearly aground, and lost no time in hauling it into his boat. The fish weighed about nine or ten atone, and the sword measured up wards of a yard in length.—Boston Herald. On Friday evening last, as Mr. James Burn, a most expert angler, was casting the line at length in the Medway, near Farleigh Bridge, in expectation of taking chub, he ac tually caught, in succession, no less than six remarkably fine perch with the artificial fly. This we consider as without a precedent, even in any of the fly-fishing excursions of Father Walton.—Maidstone Journal. The body of an elderly gentleman was found on Saturday morning, in Hampstead fields, with the head nearly severed f rom t h e b ody and a razor lying near. The body awaits a Coroner's inquest, This makes the third suicide in these fields within a week. On Saturday the body of a youth (name unknown) was Picked up in the River off St. George's-stairs, sey, an d ta k en to Horselydown Church to await a Coroner's inquest. De cease d wore str i ped trowsers and blac k waistcoat p l and had n e i t h er coat nor hat. Ber moenrcl,; The weather, according to the reports in the Journals from Ireland and the West of England, during the last week, was exceedingly stormy and rainy, and fears are entertained that it will have an injurious effect upon the harvest. In this district the weather has been fine, and we have heard of some fields of barley being cut, though it is thought it will be a month be fore harvest is general. A field of barley was cut at Pegs worth, near Morpeth, on Monday, and sonic also on the banks of the Coquet, near Rothbury.—Newcastle Journal. If - ever there was an occasion when this highly favoured land was especially called upon to acknowledge with humble gratitude the bountiful dispensations of Providence, it is to be found in the present brilliant harvest season —when the appre hensions and misgivings I%hich prevailed a few weeks back, on the subject of the crops, have been converted into the joyful certainty of luxuriant plenty. The weather, both as respects dryness and warmth, has been, since our last, the most favour able for the operations of harvest which it was possible to ex perience, and, judging from the appearance of the fields around us, the golden opportunity has benn diligently seized upon to place the grain beyond danger.—Salisbury Herald. Since our last, the weather in this neighbourhood has un dergone a very agreeable chalige ; and though the nights have been somewhat too cold for that portion of the crops which is still in a green state, the days have been extremely favourable for all the operations of the harvest where the crops bad at tained maturity ; an d we Cave no doubt that a large portion of the harvest has been secured in the southern and midland 1 counties. Indeed, n o t w i t h stan di ng the thunderstorm of Tues day evening, thi s h as b een decidedly the best week that we have had si nce t h e commencement of July. Indeed, if we mistake not, it i s t h e fi rst week since that time in which we have had a s i ng l e d ay ent i rely without rain. A continuance of the fine dry weat h er w hi c h we now enjoy would prove an in calculable blessing., to the country, and esnscially if the tempe rature was a little higher. —Manchester Guardian. The weather since our last has been more favourable than any we have had for the last two months, and has again re vived the farmers' expectations of a tolerable, if not an average grain crop. The corn has changed colour greatly within the last few days, and a few more sunny days, like that on which we write (Friday), will be most welcome.—Lancaster Guar dian. The harvest has commenced in this neighbourhood — a field near Burneside and another near Grayrigg having been par tially cut. Some time must elapse before it is generally ready, though the fine weather with which we have been favoured during the last week has wonderfully advanced it, and if it con tinue, we shall be blest with abundance. We are informed that the crops of barley and rye in the neighbourhood of Duf ton, Knock, and Long Marton, near Appleby, were never known to look better. In those districts very little wheat is grown ; what there is looks very healthy, but is thin on the ground.—Kendal Mercury. We are now enabled to announce the partial commencement of harvest in our neighbourhood. During last Friday several fields of barley, situated about 16 or 18 miles west of this, were given up to the labours of the reaper. In the early part of this week similar operations commenced on some farms on the eastern border of Berwickshire ; and yesterday a field on the farm of Castlehills, within the borough, and the property of Mr. E. Elliot, was cut down. All harvesting is yet con fined to barley, and apparently it will be several days before any other grain is ready. The ripening continues to be tardy, in consequence of the variableness of the weather.--Berwick Advertiser. We regret to state that the weather, though presenting a more favourable appearance for two or three days past, con tinues precarious and unpromising ; and the important question over a considerable portion of the north of England and Ire land, with perhaps nearly the whole of Scotland, continues to be not so much whether there shall be suitable weather for gathering in the harvest, as whether the crops shall be suffi ciently matured to be worth the gathering. During the last three days, indeed, we have had a more genial temperature than before, and, no doubt, the corn has made some progress towards maturity; but the fine weather on this, as on several former occasions, has proved only the precursor of a violent thunder storm, which visited Chesterfield and the neigh.. bourhood on Tuesday night, and, if we mistake not, will be found to have been very extensive in its range. We fear that the worm is indicative of a return of the boisterous and ungenial weather which has lately prevailed—North Derby shire Chronicle. The weather has been generally favourable during the last fortnight, and a considerable quantity of corn has been cut in various parts of the country. In Northumberland, the har vest has commenced ; but it Must of necessity proceed slowly, as much of the green looks very green. The general impres sion, from all the accounts we have seen is, that the crop will be under an average, and that it will be late before it can be secured.— Carlisle Journal. WALES. —Towards the end of last week, the weather was very unfavourable, but since Sunday we have had warm and dry weather, and the husbandman has not been idle. A con siderable breadth of grain has been cut ; and in a few days more, if similar weather prevail, harvest will become general in this part of the kingdom. The crops, it is stated, are good. —Cainbrian. IRELAND. --The accounts from all quarters, at home and abroad, respecting the weather and the prospects of an abun dant harvest, are most cheering. The gloom that prevailed for a time has totally vanished, and we hear nothing now upon these topics but thanks and rejoicings. —Dublin Packet. The state of the weather since our last publication has ex ceeded the most sanguine hopes of the agriculturists. Nothing could be more favourable to the country than the heat of yes terday and this day. All indications of wet weather have completely subsided, and the barometer, which was down to " Rain" in the early part of the week, has risen to "Fair." A general activity in getting in the harvest prevails in all directions, and we understand that there is scarcely an un employed agriculturist labourer in this neighbourhood. Should the present dry and warm temperature continue for a short time, the injury done to the corn crop will be amply compen sated for, and (what is of immense consequence to the poorer classes) the supply of late potatoes will be abundant.— Southern ( Cor h) Reporter. We have had several days of good weather in succession, with every prospect of its continuance. Great progress has been made in securing the hay, and a few days more will bring the sickle into full operation. Several fields of barley are nearly ripe for cutting, and the oats, from present ap pearances, will speedily follow. All look well, and have suffered no d. aage. There are some complaints of rust in the wheat crop ; but we fondly hope it will not prove very injurious. Expectations are high, and prospect cheering.— Erne Packet. SCOTLAND.-_A field of most luxuriant barley was cut down yesterday by Mr. Bathgate, in the immediate vicinity of Cockenzie. We are also informed that a fine field has been cut down near Broxburn, on the Glasgow road.—Scotsman. The weather, though considerably improved, is still short of being uniformly of that warm and genial kind, so necessary at the season for bringing to maturity the crops. For nearly three weeks, however, we have had a good deal more sun shine and less.rain, than for some time immediately preceding, and its effects upon the crops have been very considerable. The golden hue of autumn is now, in many places, visible ; and, with fine weather, in a week or ten days several fields of barley will be ready for the sickle. The hay crop is now mostly secured.—Kelso Chronicle. THE HIGHLANDS.—The continued ungenialness and un varying wetness of the season, begin to fill the minds of the Highlanders—blessed though they are in general with crops, which as to bulk are unusually heavy—with the most anxious forebodings about the conclusion of the harvest. And well it may. A late harvest, never a productive one, is associated with them, as in 1836, with snows and storms, rains and winds, and the depredations of vermin and cattle as its finale. The earliest spots of barley will not be ready for the sickle these fourteen days, even with the most favourable weather; and oats will not be general for six weeks to come. In many parts, such as Glenquaich, where the crops ure barely in the ear, it is feared they will he of use only for fodder to the cattle. The heavy rain and squally wind of the 20th, did great damage in lodging —especially oats, which in all quar ters are particularly rank. Potatoes and turnips, except on cold and wet soils, are good ; and clover hay__a very mode rate crop—was secured with marvellously little trouble in such unsettled weather. The present season for haymaking, the principal harvest of many of our chief graziers, is most un propitieus--there not having been for the last ten days twelve hours of consecutive dry weather. —Perthshire Advertiser, August 30. The oat crop generally in this district is expected to be very good—the wheat and barley fair—but turnips, though in some parts they have recovered considerably, will be decidedly deficient. We hear different accounts of potatoes, but on the whole the favourable ones appear to predominate. —Paisley Advertiser. Albion. i f we An officer of police on Saturday last, in the course of his evidence against a drunken woman, said " s he has f allen into a bad way, and has been for some time p ast in a sta te of dissolution !" ' An old woman, who a pp eared to com p l a i n against a' boy who had ill-used her son (a p oor idiot), com menced her harangue by inform in g Mr. Hall that her " p oo r lad was guilty of fits." An lrisman, who was brought in for being drunk and disorderly , said, p atheticall y , that he ha d le% Cork for ever. " He' s a cork cutter ,'" said a wa g near t h e bench, " for he h a s cut Cork 1" An officer, desc ribing the na ture of an assault wh ich he had sustaine d , said, pointing to one of the defendants, " that there chap, Si r , b rev i ate d hi s stick over my h ead, " meanin g that the ass ailant had abbrevi ated, shortened , o r broken his stick over his head.—Liverpool are to believe an " American" a man in Kentucky paper, has latel 2 . laid bef ore an arc hi tectural committee plan f an remarkable immense lidity to as o t r o raising require a ab stone uildin gof u p pavement m s e ch nt of support the shadow only. s U Di , <7 : , -' ... THE CORN CROPS.. 5-...;7,941,.i._ --..../y ), c -.--_..........--- There is to-day but little to communicate recrclitig.eitfiir -,;',',_ ii the state of the Crops or the progress of the , Its*: -- -71 '. have before us reports from all parts of the coun rz, i)it i ttY in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but there is in thßrnir ;It; :.; ..: ff . new, no intelligence of which our readers have not been at ready put in possession through our columns. We give a few extracts, which mill serve as a sample of the whole. The predominacy of the favourable over the less auspicious ac counts is perhaps referable in some degree to the common tendency of speaking from the hope, rather than according to an unwelcome reality. But still the weather, on the state of which evidently the quality as well as the quantity principally depends—has lately undergone an auspicious and influential change. The harvest has commenced in earnest, and auspiciously in the South; and although a few days of cold weather have rather damped the hopes of the Northern husbandmen during the past week, appearances, upon the whole, favour the pre sumption that the wheat crop will be a fair one. —Gateshead Observer.